Master Kubernetes administration and build the hands-on skills to manage production-ready container environments.

The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program develops practical skills for deploying, configuring, managing, securing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters.

Work across cluster architecture, workloads, networking, storage, RBAC, Helm, scheduling, high availability, and troubleshooting while preparing for CNCF and The Linux Foundation’s performance-based CKA certification.

  • Why get trained: Build practical skills in Kubernetes deployment, workloads, networking, storage, security, and troubleshooting
  • Why it matters: Kubernetes administrators need hands-on expertise to keep containerized workloads available, secure, and operating reliably
  • Who should attend: Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators, and IT professionals responsible for managing Kubernetes environments

Put your Kubernetes knowledge into practice by developing the command-line administration and troubleshooting skills required to operate clusters with confidence. HRD Corp Claimable.

Overview

From the cloud to hybrid environments and on-premise data centers, Kubernetes is essential to managing containerized applications, making it one of the highest-demand IT skills. Set your IT career up for success by learning the key concepts needed to build and administer a Kubernetes cluster, including application lifecycle management, configuring security, and more.

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Skills Covered

Storage
  • Understand storage classes, persistent volumes
  • Understand volume mode, access modes and reclaim policies for volumes
  • Understand persistent volume claims primitive
  • Know how to configure applications with persistent storage
Troubleshooting
  • Evaluate cluster and node logging
  • Understand how to monitor applications
  • Manage container stdout & stderr logs
  • Troubleshoot application failure
  • Troubleshoot cluster component failure
  • Troubleshoot networking
Workloads & Scheduling
  • Understand deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
  • Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
  • Know how to scale applications
  • Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments
  • Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
  • Awareness of manifest management and common templating tools
Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration
  • Manage role based access control (RBAC)
  • Use Kubeadm to install a basic cluster
  • Manage a highly-available Kubernetes cluster
  • Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster
  • Perform a version upgrade on a Kubernetes cluster using Kubeadm
  • Implement etcd backup and restore
Services & Networking
  • Understand host networking configuration on the cluster nodes
  • Understand connectivity between Pods
  • Understand ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
  • Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
  • Know how to configure and use CoreDNS
  • Choose an appropriate container network interface plugin

Prerequisites

There are no pre-requisites for this exam.

Target Audience

This certification is for Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators and other IT professionals who manage Kubernetes instances.

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Course Introduction

  • The Linux Foundation{
  • The Linux Foundation{ Training
  • The Linux Foundation{ Certifications
  • The Linux Foundation{ Digital Badges
  • Laboratory Exercises, Solutions and Resources
  • Things Change in Linux and Open Source Projects
  • E-Learning Course: LFS258
  • Platform Details

Module 2: Basics of Kubernetes

  • Define Kubernetes
  • Cluster Structure
  • Adoption
  • Project Governance and CNCF
  • Labs

Module 3: Installation and Configuration

  • Getting Started With Kubernetes
  • Minikube
  • kubeadm
  • More Installation Tools
  • Labs

Module 4: Kubernetes Architecture

  • Kubernetes Architecture
  • Networking
  • Other Cluster Systems
  • Labs

Module 5: APIs and Access

  • API Access
  • Annotations
  • Working with A Simple Pod
  • kubectl and API
  • Swagger and OpenAPI
  • Labs

Module 6: API Objects

  • API Objects
  • The v1 Group
  • API Resources
  • RBAC APIs
  • Labs

Module 7: Managing State with Deployments

  • Deployment Overview
  • Deployments and Replica Sets
  • DaemonSets
  • Labels
  • Labs

Module 8: Helm and Kustomize

  • Helm Overview
  • Helm
  • Using Helm
  • Kustomize Overview
  • Labs

Module 9: Volumes and Data

  • Volumes Overview
  • Volumes
  • Persistent Volumes
  • Rook
  • Passing Data To Pods
  • ConfigMaps
  • Labs

Module 10: Services

  • Overview
  • Accessing Services
  • DNS
  • Labs

Module 11: Ingress

  • Overview
  • Ingress Controller
  • Ingress Rules
  • Service Mesh
  • Limitations
  • Gateway API
  • Labs

Module 12: Scheduling

  • Overview
  • Scheduler Settings
  • Pod Specification
  • Affinity Rules
  • Taints and Tolerations
  • Labs

Module 13: Logging and Troubleshooting

  • Overview
  • Troubleshooting Flow
  • Basic Start Sequence
  • Monitoring
  • Plugins
  • Logging
  • Troubleshooting Resources
  • Labs

Module 14: Custom Resource Definitions

  • Overview
  • Custom Resource Definitions
  • Aggregated APIs
  • Labs

Module 15: Security

  • Overview
  • Accessing the API
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Admission Controller
  • Network Policies
  • Labs

Module 16: High Availability

  • Overview
  • Stacked Database
  • External Database
  • Labs

Module 17: Closing and Evaluation Survey

  • Evaluation Survey

Module 18: Domain Review

  • CKA Exam
  • Exam Domain Review

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Exam & Certification

This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.

Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.

Training & Certification Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

You will learn the practical skills required to install, configure, administer, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters.

The course takes you from Kubernetes fundamentals into the day-to-day responsibilities of a Kubernetes administrator. Key areas include:

  • Kubernetes architecture and cluster installation
  • kubectl, APIs, and API objects
  • Deployments, ReplicaSets, and DaemonSets
  • Helm and Kustomize
  • Persistent storage and volumes
  • Services, DNS, Ingress, and Gateway API
  • Scheduling, affinity, taints, and tolerations
  • Logging and troubleshooting
  • RBAC, authentication, and network policies
  • High availability
  • CKA exam domain review

The curriculum also includes labs throughout, giving you practical experience working with Kubernetes rather than learning the concepts only theoretically.

Pro Tip: Spend as much time working from the command line as possible. Both real-world Kubernetes administration and the CKA exam depend heavily on your ability to work efficiently with kubectl and Kubernetes resources.

CKA is ideal if you manage Kubernetes environments or want to build practical Kubernetes administration skills for cloud, DevOps, platform, or infrastructure roles.

The course is particularly relevant for:

  • Kubernetes Administrators
  • Cloud Administrators
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Cloud Engineers
  • Platform Engineers
  • Systems Administrators
  • Infrastructure Engineers

The course page identifies Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators, and other IT professionals who manage Kubernetes instances as its primary audience. CNCF similarly positions CKA as proof of the practical competencies required of Kubernetes administrators.

Pro Tip: If your role involves deploying applications but not administering the underlying cluster, compare CKA with CKAD before choosing your certification path.

There are no formal prerequisites for the CKA exam, but Linux command-line, networking, containers, and basic Kubernetes knowledge will make the training significantly easier.

The Trainocate page and Linux Foundation both confirm that the certification exam has no formal prerequisites.

However, CKA is a hands-on certification rather than a basic knowledge test. The course covers cluster installation, APIs, networking, storage, scheduling, security, HA, and troubleshooting, so practical Linux and command-line familiarity is valuable.

If you are completely new to Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, CNCF positions KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate as its foundational credential before progressing into more technical Kubernetes certifications.

Pro Tip: Before attending, make sure you are comfortable navigating Linux, editing configuration files, working from a terminal, and understanding basic container and networking concepts.

CKA focuses on administering Kubernetes clusters, while CKAD focuses on building, deploying, and configuring applications that run on Kubernetes.

The distinction comes down largely to your role.

CKA is better aligned if you:

  • Administer Kubernetes clusters
  • Configure networking and storage
  • Manage cluster security
  • Install and upgrade clusters
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure and workloads
  • Manage availability and cluster operations

CKAD is better aligned if you:

  • Develop cloud-native applications
  • Deploy applications to Kubernetes
  • Configure application workloads
  • Work primarily at the application layer

The Linux Foundation describes CKA candidates as Kubernetes and cloud administrators managing Kubernetes instances, while CKAD targets Kubernetes and cloud engineers responsible for building, deploying, and configuring cloud-native applications.

Pro Tip: If your responsibility is the Kubernetes platform, choose CKA. If your responsibility is primarily applications running on Kubernetes, CKAD may be the more relevant starting point.

Yes. The course covers the core Kubernetes administration skills assessed by the CKA certification and concludes with a dedicated CKA exam domain review.

Trainocate’s curriculum maps directly to areas assessed by the certification, including:

  • Cluster architecture and configuration
  • Workloads and scheduling
  • Services and networking
  • Storage
  • Troubleshooting

The course also covers practical supporting topics such as kubeadm, RBAC, Helm, Kustomize, Ingress, Gateway API, high availability, persistent volumes, logging, and network policies.

The CKA exam is available separately from the Trainocate course. The current Linux Foundation exam is based on Kubernetes v1.35, and the exam environment is updated regularly to stay aligned with recent Kubernetes releases.

Pro Tip: Kubernetes evolves quickly. Check the latest CNCF exam curriculum and environment shortly before your exam rather than relying solely on notes created several months earlier.

Yes. CKA is a vendor-neutral Kubernetes certification, so the core administration skills are transferable across Kubernetes environments rather than being tied to one cloud provider.

The Linux Foundation specifically describes CKA as globally recognized and vendor-neutral.

That matters because Kubernetes itself underpins managed services and enterprise platforms across different ecosystems. CNCF’s Kubernetes conformance program exists to maintain consistency and interoperability across conformant Kubernetes implementations, with more than 90 certified Kubernetes offerings currently listed.

Your CKA training therefore concentrates on core Kubernetes administration concepts such as clusters, workloads, networking, storage, scheduling, security, and troubleshooting rather than teaching only one vendor’s management interface.

Pro Tip: Build your Kubernetes foundation with CKA first, then layer on platform-specific knowledge for the cloud or Kubernetes distribution used by your organization.

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